By the mercy of Gurudev you are here in India, in a holy place—Nabadwip
Dham. This is Koladwip, aparadh-bhanjan-pat. Only the fortunate souls
can come to Nabadwip—those who are not fortunate souls cannot come
here. "Nabadvipa hena grama tribhuvane nei": there are so many
villages, so many cities, so many towns all over the world, but this is not
an ordinary place. You are living in the age of Kali, and in this age the
Lord appeared in this village—the Lord comes with Goloka Vrindavan
itself and acts in a human body, going door to door,

Sri Gorachand calls, "O souls, awake! O souls, awake! How long will you sleep
on the lap of the witch Maya?"

"This is not your house, this is not your address! After death your body will
stay here, but where will you go? You must think about it. Previously you got
a cow's body, before that maybe a monkey's body, and so on (as you saw, so
you reap), but after that you have finally got a human body. If you do not do
what this human body is meant for, if you do not hear any good teachings,
then what will you do after death? What will you get? After you lose this
human body, you will get another body." Do you understand what I am saying?
Who is saying this? Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said it.

"My Name will be preached all over the world." Mahaprabhu only said it, but
who distributed this Name? Our Guru-varga: Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami
Maharaj, Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. They preached and went
door to door, telling you, "You have lost your address! You have lost your
house! This place where you are living now is a temporary address. You are
renting a place, paying rent, but one day the rent term will finish and you
will have to leave this house. Neither your friends, nor your father, mother,
or any relatives can stop you.

So, what is necessary for this age? You must chant the Holy Name. Krishna
appeared in the form of the Name,

"Only chanting the Holy Name, chanting the Holy Name, chanting the Holy
Name—there is no other way, no other way, no other way."

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Adi-lila, 7.76)

Chant Hare Krishna, and through your heart you can get a connection with the
Lord through a mahanta-guru—then you can practise Krishna
consciousness. Whether you are a brahmachari, a householder, a
vanaprastha, or even a sannyasi, you can practise Krishna
consciousness and maintain your spiritual life wherever you are. You can stay
in the householder's life, no problem, but you must maintain your spiritual
life—follow the rules and regulations, and also reject obstacles to
Krishna consciousness, reject what is not favourable to Krishna
consciousness.

If you practise Krishna consciousness in this way, you will get a real life,
you will get pleasure. Everyone is searching for pleasure, ananda. Do
you want happiness? Do you want pleasure? Who does not want to play football
with Krishna? Do you want to play football with Krishna? Then you can join
Krishna consciousness and you can play football and do so many other
things—you can enjoy with the Lord. Krishna is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, and whatever kind of enjoyment you want to have, you will get
that.

জীবন অনিত্য জানহ সার
তাহে নানাবিধ বিপদ-ভার ।

jivana anitya yanaha sara
tahe nana-vidha vipada bara

"Remember that life is temporary and full of all kinds of danger."

Life is very short, Prabhu. So much danger is coming in your life, and you
can leave your body at any time. In the meantime, we must not misuse our
time.

We are always surrounded by Maya, we are always in the cage of Maya, illusory
environment, but if you pray to her, pray to the Lord, if you surrender to
the Lord, then the Lord will come to you, and when you come in touch with the
Lord, if you are a surrendered jiva soul, then slowly, slowly Maya
will be removed from you—Maya will run away from you.

জীবে দয়া, নামে রুচি, বৈষ্ণব সেবা ।
ইহা বহি সনাতন নাহি আর ধর্ম্ম ॥

jive daya name ruchi vaisnava seva
iha bahi sanatana nahi ara dharma

"Be merciful to the souls, chant the Holy Name, and serve the Vaishnavs.
Sanatan, besides this, there is no other religion."

Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur said that people make millions of
hospitals, but we are not patients with a material disease, we are patients
with an eternal disease. Who can remove that disease? You must go to a proper
doctor who can remove our eternal disease—he will give you some good
advice, and through that good advice your material desires will be removed.
Material desires means bhukti-, mukti-, siddhi-kami: you want to have
some liberation, some enjoyment, some powers, and so on. This kind of disease
can be removed through the advice of a bona fide Guru, a bona fide associate
of the Lord.

You can understand this all easily yourself. First you have to understand and
ask yourself, "Who am I? What is my duty? What am I suffering for? We are
suffering so many kinds of miseries—adhibhautik (আধিভৌতিক),
adhyatmik (আধ্যাত্মিক), adhidaivik (আধিদৈবিক)—but what
for? What is our duty? How can we get a real connection with the Lord?" These
are the main things.

You have sent a great soul, Your associate (to rescue me). Seeing me so
fallen and being merciful, he came to me and said...

We are fallen, conditioned souls, but if we surrender to our Guru, surrender
to the Lord, then the chaitya-guru (the Guru that we have in our
heart) will take us to the bona fide Guru who will then tell you:

You do not know, but Krishna Himself has appeared in this world as Gauranga
Mahaprabhu, a combined form of Krishna and Srimati Radharani. Gauranga
Mahaprabhu came in this world and told everybody, "Do not sleep! You are
sleeping so much!" Sleeping means you are now sleeping on the lap of Maya, on
the lap of illusory environment.

If we can continue spiritual life, we can become a member of Krishna's
family—and when we join Krishna's family, we will see everything
clearly. At present, we are members of Maya's family, and the Guru comes to
hijack us from from Maya and keep us in Krishna's family, make us a servant
of the Lord. This is the Guru's duty, and this is what I am doing now. I am
here to hijack you.

It is Gurudev's duty to hijack the jiva souls, conditioned
souls—we do not hijack your money, your gold, your wealth or property,
nothing like that—we hijack you from the illusory environment
and bring you to Krishna's family, give you service. This is our scheme; but
you must have some desire. I think you have that desire, otherwise why would
you come to me? You have some desire to know something about Krishna
consciousness, and I am telling you about it, that is my
service—Gurudev gave me this service to hijack people from the illusory
environment.

'He is the moon that delights his star-like servants. His great, lion-like roar scares away the inimical. His feet bestow auspiciousness upon the simple who accept them. Eternally I offer my obeisance to my master's feet.'